Meet the Cast

MORE TO COME…About Brian and d20Monkey

Brian Patterson created his first comic when he was 9 years old, a superhero comic called Snowboybased on the adventures of a young Brian with sweet snow-based powers. His Grandmother thought it was “adorable”. Had he continued on this path who knows where Snowboy could have taken him but that all changed, when at the tender age of 10 years old, Brian played his very first game of Dungeons & Dragons. Playing with a group of older kids on the front steps of his elementary school, Brian’s mind exploded in a symphonic guitar riff laced with swords, magic, and half-naked demon ladies. His eyes had been opened to a world of possibilities and the crudely drawn pictures on a cardboard GM screen left a lasting mark. Since then, Brian has been an avid gamer playing across a wide range of systems and editions as both a player and a dedicated GM.

While all of this gaming happened, Brian spent most of his high school years and early 20’s cultivating another love: Comics by working to become a comic book artist for one of the major publishers. After a few years, he finally realized his cartoony style would never evolve to look like the next Jim Lee, so he took a deep breath and faced the facts: Brian was a cartoonist, not a hardcore comic artist and his dick joke humor would never work at a major publisher. He’ll never draw Batman (probably) but he can illustrate the tale of his people: cartoon geeks playing the games he loves. So in October 2010, Brian posted the first comic in his series d20Monkey: A webcomic following the in-and-out-of-gameplay experiences of lifelong friends and gamers, Sam Tigh and Brett Tucker. Adored by tens of loyal readers initially, Brian continues to publish d20Monkey 3-days a week, as well as working with publishers in the gaming industry as a freelance illustrator and cartographer. Brian currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with two cats (Emma and Gizmo) where he works as a graphic designer, but is working to make d20Monkey his full-time job. He plays games, runs a bi-weekly Pathfinder campaign, draws comics, listens to music, and runs his mouth about all sorts of things on Twitter (comics, gaming, DIO).

Chatty DM
Favourite Class: Gamemaster (or Barbarian, when forced to play)
Best Gaming Moment: When a cleric wearing full plate entered the “Giant Magnet” room of gnolls in Queen of Demonweb Pits… and then the wizard at the door cast “Wall of Iron”
Real Life Dump Stats: Dexterity and Wisdom

Jadedpaladin
Favourite Class: Paladin (it’s in the name)
Best Gaming Moment: Having my DM tell me the only way I would be able to pull off something was to roll a natural 20 and then doing it while looking him straight in the eye.
Real Life Dump Stats: Dexterity

Ashley
Favorite Class: Sorcerer or Favored Soul
Best Gaming Moment: Asgard game (one session, sadly) where I had to talk to Surtur, but couldn’t get past his guards. One decided to attack and I rolled a Nat 20 (after using a Hero Point to re-roll a 1, this was a M&M game), then I rolled a second 20 to confirm, then that ALL GLORIOUS 3rd Nat 20 to insta kill! Then his buddy rolled a nat 1 on his moral check and was scared shitless of me.
Real Life Dump Stat: Strength

Favorite Class: anything preceded by the word Dwarf.
Best Gaming Moment: The look on my DM’s face when he crit failed his big bad monsters magic resistance. (Couldn’t fool me either, I knew by his crestfallen look that I had circumvented his endgame. LOL)
Real Life Dump Stat: Wisdom.

Favorite Class: Cleric (specifically, 5e War Priest)
Best Gaming Moment: When playing a 3.5 barbarian, sprinting 200 yards across the top of a labyrinth and using my broadsword to land a beautiful non-fatal blow that launched my opponent out of the arena like a baseball being rocketed out of AT&T Park.
Real Life Dump Stat: Charisma (I’ve got about as much tact as a tank).

Favorite Class: Dwarven Druid.
Best Gaming Moment: Having a Paladin “pray” for two turns during a fight (ie: no actual actions) and the rest of the players start throwing 20s.
Real Life Dump Stat: Charisma

Favorite Class: Wizard
Best Gaming Moment: Playing my int-dumped half-orc barbarian, we were against a “medium sized” black dragon. Raged out, last one standing, got the last swing in and killed the dragon. Rage faded as the dragon fell on me. Died with my axe still in the beast.
Real Life Dump Stat: Dexterity

Favoured Class: Rogue (3/3.5/Pathfinder)
Best Gaming Moment: After my Rogue, Thamoir, lost his left arm from the elbow down in a battle with a Dragon, an evil Halfling Rogue/Mage grafted a demon arm to the stump!
Real Life Dump Stat: Double dump on Dex and Strength

Favorite Class: Rogue/Sorcerer multi-class (3.5)
Best Gaming Moment: As a DM, seeing the looks on my players’ faces as I read the description of their home-city burning and being ravaged by the unified forces of chromatic dragons and drow (rehearsed and set perfectly to ‘Heart of Courage’ by Two Steps To Hell)
Real Life Dump Stat: Dexterity

Favorite Class: So long as it isn’t a dwarf and I can be a pirate..that!

Best Gaming Moment: It is hard to pick one single favorite gaming moment, I spend way to much time gaming, but anytime everyone is standing up around the table watching a single die roll that could make or break the game… that moment is the best gaming moment for me

Favorite Class: Artificer in the Eberron campaign setting (damn, that’s what I call a versatile class!)
Best Gaming Moment: When my almost naked and totally stoned rogue trader captain shot a missile midair (the most needed ’01’ ever rolled)
Real Life Dump stat: Wisdom – because making wise decision is never fun 😉

Favourite Class: Grackle Tooth Gunslinger
Best Gaming Moment: Flying a fighter out of the back of a crashing spaceship, hitting a building, jumping out, and taking no damage (which was good because I was the party’s doctor, and everyone but our robot was dying.)
Real Life Dump Stat: Wisdom and Charisma

Favorite Class: Ranger
Best Gaming Moment: having the rest of my party and the GM agree to permanently blinding my character after multiple dice rolls proved my character always shot better when blind
Real Life Dump Stat: Constitution

Favorite class: Bard
Best Gaming Moment: Throwing an orichalcum statuette into a magical capacitor. The resulting explosion ended the plague, horribly wounded the demonic entity that unleashed the plague, nearly killed the entire party, and forced a run for our lives out of the catacombs underneath the god-tree outside the city. It was glorious.
Real Life Dump Stat: Strength

Favorite Class: Rogue
Best Gaming Moment: Stealing the loot from the entire party for the whole campaign. No one realized it, just thought it was part of the ironman game.
Real Life Dump Stat: I went with basic commoner, tens all around!

Favorite Class : anything that gets up close and personal
Best Gaming Moment : A Far Realms beastie negotiating with the party for the brain of most intelligent of the group and when we refuse, it asks how much for one of the dumb one while scanning me. I take offense, and manage to crit 4 times in the round (was a Archery Ranger/Assassin at the time).
Real Life Dump Stat : Charisma

Favorite Class: Rogue
Best Gaming Moment: In my first game, I grappled and picked up a dwarven bandit, and proceeded to throw him over a building. In which he landed directly in front of my friend who proceeded to Coup de grâce.
Real Life Dump Stat: Dexterity (Good with my hands and eye coordination, but that extra weight, definitely a stat breaker)

Favorite Class: Warlord (tryhard I know)
Best gaming moment: when I talked the rest of my group into giving our fighter, who was smeared in monster blood of warying origin, a long bath by tying him up with a chain and dumping him in a well. Campaign still going and the fighter has now declared war on our halfling, who stole his spare “war paint”. A new favorite gaming moment might come soon.
Real Life Dump Stat: Strength

Favorite class: Invoke 4e
Favorite Gaming Moment: When the party I was DMing for had its only tank and healer kick an a uber trapped door and died leaving behind 5 defenseless wizards and a bard can’t forget the bard.
Favorite Character Race: Dragonborn 4e

Favorite class: Invoker 4e
Favorite Gaming Moment: When the party I was DMing for had its only tank and healer kick an a uber trapped door and died leaving behind 5 defenseless wizards and a bard can’t forget the bard.
Favorite Character Race: Dragonborn 4e

Favorite Class: Barbarian
Favorite Gaming Moment: Tie between seducing the paladin sent to arrest me and having her break her Paladin vows by association with me, and fighting a 37 v 1 when the rest of my party got knocked off a ship by a Whirlwind. I lost, obviously, but I killed 19 of them before they threw me off too.

Favourite Gaming Moment: When we got the Handsome bag of tricks, and decided the summoned minion had to become nigh-invincible through all the buffs the party could muster as opposed to finishing the damn encounter

Favorite Gaming Moment: Hard to choose. The time I backstabbed my group with a wizard who stole the 4 components needed to save the world, turning components into my personal playground, thus setting the party up to have a NEW long-term villain in the game (forcing me to roll a new character) was fun!

Also, the time my dwarf fighter spent two weeks crafting materials to bribe/bully/intimidate/swindle his way into the Sturmhaven Ball & Masquerade while watching my party try to come up with extravagant ideas on how to sneak/get invited in. Sometimes, being the psychopath with the bloodstained axe in one hand, and a dead dragons head for a shield has its perks!

Favourite Class: Assault Marine (Deathwatch)
Best Gaming Moment: Grabbing a Genestealer and using it as a makeshift bat when I got disarmed. Cleared the entire room.

Second best moment: The party has descended to the bottom of a tower to confront a psyker/oracle that betrayed them. My character is still poking around the top, however. As the party engages the oracle in conversation, they hear the roaring of a jump pack and half a second later the psyker gets flattened by 2 tonnes of angry Space Marine landing on him.

Favorite Class: Cleric (though I am banned from using one due to incidents

Best Gaming Moment: My group was low level and in a tournament called the Crucible, and I was just tanking thru it with a dragonborn fighter, Top damage and survivability. Anything within reach was just going down. So my DM decided to throw a curveball at us and brought in an Angel riding a Wyvern. Everyone in the group starts readying ranged weapons, but I had none. It gets to my turn and he goes, “So, what are you going to do now Captain For Kord?” Dead pan I looked at him and said “I throw the dwarf at him.” Dwarf player says cool, roll, crit for strength check for distance, crit on to hit. I yell out “For Kord!!!” The look on my DM’s face was just priceless. I have since made 4 other attacks with dwarves as the weapon, so far all crits.

Favorite class: Wizard.
Greatest Gaming moment: Rifts, the time we started a war with the coalition by murdering a hotel owner because his prices were too high.
Real life dump stat: Wisdom (cause who needs to make good decisions right?)

Favorite Class: Alchemist (Pathfinder)
Greatest Gaming Moment: Playing a Dwarven Samurai, a Pit Fiend had kidnapped our rogue, and we chased him down, came upon his torture chamber, and my character leaped through the air (In Full Plate) and crit Killed the Fiend, making my Katana Legendary and Devil-Slaying!
Real Life Dump Stat: Con

Favorite Class: Also Inquisitor (Pathfinder)
Greatest Gaming Moment: This game sadly fell flat, but we all started at 20, and I made a fighter that dual wielded bastard swords, using some 3.0 feats to lower the negative down to -2/-2. We were all on an airship, and we got attacked by a huge Dragon (We found out later it was good, and was being mid controlled). My character ran towards him and leaped off the airship, nat 20’d my jump check, landed on his back, and struck a blow in his back, causing him to crash to the ground….Then we all woke up, as 1st level characters on our way to kill an Orc Raiding Camp.
Real Life Dump Stat: Still Con, I have no stomach for things. (Fail my Fort for everything)

Favorite class: duskblade (dnd 3.5- p.h.b.2 )
Favorite moment: Our party had be plane shifted to demi-plane that was on the fringes of the astral plane, my character was captured by a wizard that had learned to use the excess energy of the demi-plane. I was being dragged by 2 golems to a kind of alter that the wizard would use to alter my moral perceptions and make me serve him. I had rolled a Nat 20 on my escape artist check and managed to slip away, giving me enough time to get to my feet. Once up I took out the 2 golem and critical hit the wizard (and regular hit the wizard a few times), however the wizard used a pool of pure energy to heal (still call has on it), recapture me, and begin trying to convert me. I hit him 3 more times before he succeeded. Then he used me to fight the party. I hit the monk in our party once then he used me as a punching bag.(Also hax)
IRL dump stat: charisma and wisdom. also may by dex.

Favorite Moment: It’s a tie, right now, between the time I pulled a Crit on a Still/Silent Shatter spell against a crossbow that was being pointed at my head, or the time that one of my players cursed me out when a kobold threw a 34 damage Fireball in my Pathfinder campaign.

Favorite class: Rogue
Favorite moment: As a player, stealthily going for the Big Bad, critically missing and dying the next round. It was the first fight for the character, and the last. I remember looking at the DM and saying “Welp, I’ll let you finish the fight while I make another char…”. As a DM, everytime the players think of something I didn’t that break the plot. I hate it and love it at the same time.
IRL dump stat: Wisdom, ADHD much.

Favorite moments: After years and years of dedicated study, finally playing in a group, ironically at a religious college, with my half-elf axe-wielding paladin Scalis.
Another was GMing my first Pathfinder homebrew campaign. I have illustrated much of those adventures myself: from the Magus crit-slapping a KO on the hobgoblin he was duelling, to the nymph encounter, to the raid on an evil alchemist’s mansion with all his mutated goblin minions, and other infernal Chelaxian allies, the heroes supported by a hive of giant intelligent celestial bees.

Favorite class: cleric of light D&D 5th edition (because I can either heal you or set you on fire whichever floats my alignment)
Favorite moment: running an evil campaign I have it start where there characters are magically teleported into an open field with no explanation and them having a truxican standoff and the only reason it wasn’t a total party wipe is the mage managed to get an obscuring mists off before anyone did anything to reckless
Real life dump stat: Wisdom because while I am quite smart I can’t remember things for sh*t

Greatest Moment: Was GMing a party without a rogue. While running the dungeon, the monk decides that he’ll take the rogue spot by kicking in every door they come across. I used up every door trap in the book and made up a few new ones as well in that one session. Oddly enough, it wasn’t the traps that gave him trouble, it was failing a will save vs. a mindflayer at the top level of the tower.

Favored Class: Cleric (usually of the Dwarf variety)
Greatest Moment: Killing his bard’s long-running “mirror of opposition” clone nemesis (who had him in a choke-hold at the time) by running his and his identical nemesis’ hearts through with a short sword and one final quip.
Dump Stat: Strength

Favorite class: Ranger
Greatest Moment: As a DM, running a CoC game in which I drove an already kinda crazy character completely Here’s Johnny to the sounds of Tiny Tim’s “Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight”. As a player, I got to wreck a DM’s Hero System campaign at Gencon by Leroy Jenkinsing the Main baddy with a shotgun and critting my attack and damage rolls. First time I got an entire table to shout Leroy Jenkins in unison.

Favorite Moment: played a shaman/thief who through a deft beheading revealed a tribe of werewolves plotting to recruit our clan into thiers. On a natural 20 and some skill modifiers a guard’s head went rolling into the middle of the ritual. Chaos ensued

Favorite class: monk (pathfinder)
Favorite moment: the dwarf fighter of the party got burn to a crisp. I kept part of his ashes and upon his resurrection… rolled a spliff of his ashes I kept and got him to smoke himself.

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Favored Class: Ranger
Greatest Moment: Killing a goblin with a thrown stone meant to just draw his attention.
Dump Stat: Self-Esteem (not sure where that would be filed under D&D… maybe CHA?)

Favored Class: Paladin/Ranger
Greatest Moment: Nat 20’d an unarmed kick to a dragon’s leg which was almost severed and snapped the leg bone in half, causing it to fall off the cliff it was perched on and onto a big ol’ spike below.
IRL Dump Stat: WIS. Thankfully I still got it to +1 but it was luck based more then anything else. Grow up fast in the military.

Overconfident for a Reason
Favored Class: Psion or Wilder, depending on whether I need raw damage, or versatality.
Greatest Moment: When my nearly immortal fire gnome fails the DC 15 fortitude save to survive Stone to Flesh after encountering way too many basilisks. Wait, I think I got this backwards.
Dump Stat: Strength, always. Few of my characters have more than a 6 here.
Real Life Dump Stat: Constitution. Hooboy.

Greatest Moment: Slipping a bomb into another character’s pack, watching said delivery system walk up to intended target, then hitting the switch, and killing them both. It was Paranoia, so it was all in good fun. I don’t make a habit of icing other PCs. Honest.

Greatest Moment: Playing in a 3.5 Campaign, as a Vassal of Bahamut, with an avatar of Bahamut cohort/mount; blowing up a magic shop in a heated battle; placing the sole surviving object of the shop, a ring, on my finger. Wait what is a phylactery? Huh, Lich ring…Dragon cohort/mount is not amused.

Greatest Moment: Playing DCC my pretty dickish dm at the time (seriously set a dc 25 trap on a basket when we were lvl 2) set up this encounter meant to tpk we all knew it so I look at him and go my wizard burns all his stat points ( Wizards can burn stat points to increase the number on a roll to enhance spell effects) he knows my burning hands has been my favorite and hes like you can only hit about a third of them with it and I go im going with a diffrent spell I roll with my burnt stats I rolled a 36 and shout COLOR SPRAY every enemy in 100 ft is blinded knocked out and (after rolling damage) dead he killed my wizard shortly after sadly.

Favoured Class: Literally only just started my first campaign as DM, but I made a practise Wizard so yeah

Greatest Moment: See above so not many moments yet… but this one time my 3 friends (Gnome Bard, High Elf Monk, Dragonborn Wizard) were stuck and tied up in a room. They got out and there was a corridor leading to a large room filled with gold, which I told them was cursed. I accidentally uncovered an offshoot room so they knew it was there, but I told them they couldn’t act like their characters knew that. However, I also decided there was a symbol on the floor which shot wooden darts at you from the wall unless you had a special item. HEM stood on the symbol and was fine thanks to Unarmoured Defence. GB decided to cast an illusion in which the wall appeared transparent, so DW and HEM ran into it and lost 1 hp. They then made GB touch the gold which called in some Kobolds from a side room. DW could speak to the Kobolds and was bartering with them (2 GP to get out of the room) when they insulted GB’s bagipe skills. He ran over and shanked the main one, killing it immediately. I have never seen anyone look so betrayed.

Favored Class: Psion – Telepath
Greatest Moment: Playing an expy of Deadpool in a friends homebrew post-apocalyptic setting/rules. I found and put together a girl’s bicycle (with flowered basket and tassles) and rode it into combat wielding a hockey stick like a lance.
Dump Stat: Strength

Favoured Class: Anythign with magic
Greatest Moment: Rolemaster. Other party member: The _Mentalist_ who was in hiding because almost zero combat skills came out of hiding to attack last Giant who had taken down fighters, rogues, etc. Rolemaster uses open ended d% (ie if 96+, re-roll and add). 96, 99, 00, 78 for an attack roll with a hand axe from behind…

Other G..Moment: will one adv group; laughing solid 3+ hours – more than once.